The local Christmas Bird Counts finished up last weekend with the Stevensville bird count, one of the oldest such counts in the state of Montana.The reasons for doing the bird counts are numerous, and Bob Danley of the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge and I talked about some of them in our weekl…

The ducks are a little more active in this "Wait a Minute" scene from the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge near Stevensville. The geese apparently are used to the over-active ducks and just float on by. "Move along, nothing to see here."When you check out the …

The Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge has a new website. You don't have to look as hard as Bob in our photo, because we have the link right here to the new refuge website.The site has an updated activities calendar, lots of information about the animals you can see at the area northeast of S…